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Maximum
...has all the right ingredients, but with several layers of extra garnish, it tastes wrong.
Jul 2012
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Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
...Bhardwaj tells the story in a style that comes close to burlesque – wacky, entertaining, and over-the-top. However, something is missing – the storytelling doesn’t bolster the concerns in the movie the way it should, and it goes downhill after the interval.
Jan 2013
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Marjaavaan
...an 80s masala template, dance bars and remixes, infuriating rhyme schemes, and a pyro-maniacal obsession.
Nov 2019
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Mardaani 2
...a sharply-plotted script with some gasp-inducing mini twists. But the moment lead actor Rani Mukerji takes centre stage, it all feels too easy.
Dec 2019
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Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
...director Vasan Bala retreats to that primal feeling of fantasy, and performs a touching reversal: he stacks up the imaginary outtakes of his own childhood and returns them to where they belong — in a movie.
Mar 2019
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Manto
It makes brave pronouncements on artistic freedom, religious violence and abject nationalism without losing sight of its investigative rigour— the film illustrates; it does not preach. Such mindfulness is often absent in our cinema, a medium so susceptible to rage, but Manto stands apart as a poignant exception.
Sep 2018
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Manjhi
The story of Dashrath Manjhi must not be forgotten but let us please also ensure that the cinema that milks the lives of our unsung heroes, also gives something back to the milieu it takes its box office heft from.
Aug 2015
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Manikarnika
The film begins as a biopic, but derails quickly into a surreal showdown of unbridled carnage. The facts, if any, get chewed up in the mess.
Jan 2019
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Malang
Remove the stylised layers, foot-tapping music, Greek God-like leads, and the crisp runtime, and most of Mohit Suri’s films are essentially explorations of toxic masculinity. Malang is no different. It ticks all the boxes in the Mohit Suri-checklist, but does little else.
Feb 2020
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Malaal
The film is constantly aiming for a large-canvas treatment, often at the expense of local colour and depth. Only because it can.
And, because this is ultimately a launch film.
Jul 2019
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Madras Cafe
This is arguably the best political thriller that Bollywood has so far given us.
Aug 2013
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Made In China
...is a fairly entertaining watch coupled with a socially-relevant message. But the lack of a more intense approach pulls down the characters and their scope to evolve.
Oct 2019
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Machine
There is bad. There is awful. And then there is a film where your eyeballs are behind your eyebrows threatening to launch from top of your head like it's Cape Canaveral.
Mar 2017
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M.S. Dhoni
What we get is all peaks and no valleys. An engaging but forgettable T20 instead of a memorable drama filled Test match.
Sep 2016
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Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana
...a light-hearted feel-good film that will make you leave the cinema with a smile on your face.
Nov 2012
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Luka Chuppi
...is a half-baked attempt at a fun-filled take on how politicians use religion and culture as election propaganda.
Mar 2019
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Love Sonia
What could have easily slipped into the trenches of reductive cinema is rescued by a dogged upscaling of drama.
Sep 2018
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Love Aaj Kal
It’s the unholiest of cash-grabs — and an all-time low for its writer-director.
Feb 2020
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London Paris New York
As the film collapses into an end as unimaginative as its title, try as one might to empathies with Nikhil Chopra, one ends up sympathizing with Ali Zafar.
Mar 2012
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Lekar Hum Deewana Dil
...a satisfying blithe and breezy slice-of-life experience with dialogues and scenes that ring true most of the time.
Jul 2014
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Ladies VS Ricky Bahl
The ending of a movie like this has to choose between corny and ironic. In Ricky Bahl, it's salvaged from falling flat by sparkling dialogues and good acting.
Dec 2011
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Laal Kaptaan
...crucial balance between gravitas and fun is woefully amiss in Navdeep’s latest work, a galloping period western, weighed down by its broad historical sweep and dreary philosophizing.
Oct 2019
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Krrish 3
Rakesh Roshan combines the breathtaking SFX with a high level of emotion and drama. The result is quite often exhilarating and spectacular.
Nov 2013
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Krrish 3
Hrithik Roshan’s 'Kites' may make his fans very happy by the way he has been presented in the film but those looking out for a never seen been before experience that was promised through its mega marketing blitzkrieg will be in for a small disappointment.
May 2010
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Ki & Ka
A large part of Ki & Ka in fact resembles something that's been long overcooking inside Chetan Bhagat's head.
Apr 2016
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Khoobsurat
Entertaining occasionally but never believable and always lost in a burst of colour.
Sep 2014
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Khandaani Shafakhana
Shilpi’s debut effort is well-intentioned but suffers from the same hypocrisies that afflict Indian drawing rooms. Not a line of dialogue sticks and there are very few talking points in this film on sex talk...
Aug 2019